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Post by Sleeves on Feb 8, 2014 17:10:54 GMT
I have no life and so I made playlists on 8tracks for Joseph and Wroth.
Jo: Subversive
Listen: 8tracks.com/akkhlys/subversive
Fire - Noah Gundersen
Bartholomew - The Silent Comedy
Run - Kill it Kid
Fury oh Fury - Nico Vega
Blood on my Name - The Wright Brothers
David - Noah Gundersen
THISKIDISNOTALRIGHT - AWOLNATION
I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Slipping Away - Barcelona
Spit the Dark (Acoustic) - Empires
Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons
Wroth: A Sleight of the Mind
Listen: 8tracks.com/akkhlys/a-sleight-of-the-mind
Bad Boy Good Man - Tape Five
Volatile Times - IMXA
You Rascal You - Hanni El Khatib
Wires - The Neighborhood
Sail - AWOLNATION
Spectrum - Florence and the Machine
Bad Blood - Bastille
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? - Arctic Monkeys
Sweater Weather - The Neighborhood
I Don't Care - Fall Out Boys
Don't Stop - Innerpartysystem
If you want me to do one of your characters just ask. They were fun to make.
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Post by Sleeves on Feb 17, 2014 1:54:48 GMT
MORE PLAYLISTS
Elie: Stormborn
Listen: 8tracks.com/akkhlys/stormborn
Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap
King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men
Shake it Out by Florence and the Machine
Bones (Acoustic) by Young Guns
I'm Still Here by John Rzeznik
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra
The Enemy by Mumford and Sons
Blinding by Florence and the Machine
The Lightning Strike by Snow Patrol
Roads Untraveled by Linkin Park
Daedarus: per aspera ad astra
Listen: 8tracks.com/akkhlys/per-aspera-ad-astra
Keep Awake by 100 Monkeys
I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters
Atlantis to Interzone by The Klaxons
The Stand by Mother Mother
Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes
Dimitri Mendeleev by Astronautalis
Soul Wars by AWOLNATION
Conquistador by 30 Seconds to Mars
Gold Girls Guns by Metric
Damn Things Over by Empires
I know you guys don't know much about Archetypes, but I've had the characters for years now and they've really become...I don't know, a part of me? It's not quite that deep, but they mean a lot to me.
I don't know if their story will ever be written in its entirety, but I would like to take a minute to express my feelings and intentions surrounding them. I just need to let it out.
The story of Archetypes revolves around the protagonist Elliot Sunderland’s strange, platonic yet intimate relationship with Daedarus Cain and how it affects the fate of Elberon, one of several hidden city-states home to magic users.
Elie and Dae are both ‘Harbingers’, Mages of an extremely high caliber of Magic. Around three Harbingers are born in Elberon every century. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right? Well, it would be, except both of them were born with dark magic, around which exists a centuries old stigma. The ‘Harbinger’ thing is why they meet in the first place.
A Note on Daedarus: Daedarus is a dick. He kills people. He’s not a good person. But he is a funny, endearing person, so we forgive him. In this sense, he’s a very…complex fellow. On one hand, he’s flippant and snarky and so very human, and on the other he’s a depraved bastard who tortures little girls. He’s a villain, but a villain who is so completely aware of his villainy that in a strange way, it’s difficult not to like him. He’s not crazy, he’s not possessed, he’s not suffering from some traumatic past. He’s a wild, blazing inferno that is fuelled by the craving to change the world around him, to alter the universe until it's unfolding in his image. In that sense, I suppose he is like a man possessed. Possessed by a need that not even he understands.
A Note on Elliot: Elliot is actually very sad when you truly think about it. He’s put through so much, and he deals with it by constructing a kind of mental fantasy, where everyone is separated into strict constructs of good and evil—or, perhaps, he has been dragged into Daedarus’s. He’s Daedarus’s antithesis in that he’s a child, innocent but not naïve. The wide-eyed idealist to Dae’s jaded cynic. He’s imperfect, that’s for certain, but compared to Daedarus he’s a saint. He’s driven by an urge to protect and an utterly consuming need to belong. It is this simple, childish, maybe even selfish need, not some incorruptible innocence, that allows him to ignore the imperfections in others, even someone like Daedarus. And, in the end, it is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
Both Elie and Dae are nerds who love fantasy novels and comic books. This lends them a level of genre savviness that allows them to realize that they’ve been set up as hero and villain, respectively. Both embrace their fate at first, Elie for obvious reasons and Dae because, well, he always rooted for the bad guys anyway. ‘Villains act, heroes react.’
But through meetings each other and adopting a semi-civil student-teacher relationship, while still occasionally trying to kill each other, they begin to subvert their assumed roles. They stop reading from the script.
They adopt a strange co-dependence that neither of them is even aware of. Elie finds a parental figure, a mentor, and a friend, and Dae finds a student to teach and a child to love. Nobody else will have them, so they have to have each other. They make each other better people. Each one forces the other to reassess their morals and ideals.
But throughout their relationship they are constantly struggling with the roles that society and fate have handed them, and with their clashing interests. Like I said before, Dae is a dick. He’s a bigoted terrorist. Elie is a brat, but not a dick and definitely not a murderer (except for that one time). They fight. A lot. Sometimes with words, sometimes with Magic, and occasionally with fists. And Daedarus is a villain, and as such has an evil plot (which turns out to be really really really not evil). And Elliot has a place in these plans, and so Dae has to find a way to reconcile Elie-my-only-friend with Elie-my-pawn. And Elie, for his own part, is trying to reconcile Dae-my-mentor with Dae-my-arch-nemesis.
So, really, in the end, what Archetypes is about is a broken idealist and a lonely child fighting together to break free from the roles fate has assigned to them and finding redemption and meaning through each other.
Sorry for the rant.
I just have a lot of feelings surrounding these idiots.
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Post by Arctura on Feb 17, 2014 1:59:21 GMT
*slow claps*
I think.
I think you, my good lady, have just won the Internet. Everybody can go home now.
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Post by Arctura on Feb 17, 2014 1:59:56 GMT
If I coerce you to write it, would you?
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Post by Sleeves on Feb 17, 2014 2:03:17 GMT
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Of course.
*weeps ridiculously*
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Post by fairydragon10 on Feb 17, 2014 17:50:00 GMT
write it pleeeaaaasssseeeeeeee
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Post by Sleeves on Apr 6, 2014 18:39:23 GMT
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